'First Ladies Man' Has Advice for Melania Trump after Speech Hoopla

Watch CBN News' Mark Martin's full interview with Andrew Och about Melania Trump as possibly the next first lady.

Donald Trump's wife Melania stole the show at the Republican National Convention Monday but not in a way she would've preferred.

Her speech on the opening night of the convention was criticized after allegations of plagiarism surfaced and is still being talked about on virtually every media outlet.

After the first night of the convention adjourned, social media posts popped up saying two passages in her speech plagiarized Michelle Obama's 2008 speech to the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said the allegations were "just absurd" and described the situation as being "totally blown out of proportion."

"There were a few words on it, but they're not words that were unique words," he told The Associated Press. "Ninety-nine percent of that speech talked about her being an immigrant and love of country and love of family and everything else."

So what's the next step for Melania Trump, a woman who could be the next first lady?

CBN News spoke with Andrew Och, an award-winning television producer who has documented the lives of every first lady of the United States. He is also known as the "First Ladies Man."

"I really think you put this behind you and you step out and show the country and the world who you are," Och said, when asked if he had any advice for Mrs. Trump. "Get out there -- show us that you have your own opinions, you can speak your mind and support your husband in the way that she did in the speech."

"The speech was well-delivered, and the speech was very positive and very supportive so if she continues that on her own without these kind of flubs and accusations -- just be herself, and I think she'll do just fine," Och continued.  

If Mrs. Trump does become the first lady, what will she bring to the White House?  

"She's in a very unique position," Och told CBN News. "She would be the second only foreign-born first lady. Louisa Catherine Adams is the first, born in 1775 in London, England."

"So there's that international flair," he continued. "She's very young. Historically, first ladies that are young and attractive have been very popular."

"Our youngest first lady, Frances Cleveland, 21 years old when she was first lady when she married Grover Cleveland. The nation fell in love with her," Och said. "Melania Trump has that same allure. She's young; she's attractive. She would be on every cover of every magazine."

"She has philanthropic endeavors with breast cancer awareness and the Red Cross," he continued. "She speaks five different languages so she's highly intelligent, and she could bring sort of a post 9-11 Laura Bush international outreach program, working with orphans of refugees. She's from a war-torn country herself."

"Working with women's rights internationally and nationally -- she could do great things," Och said.